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inactuate

inactuate verb: to put into action; to activate.

Verb

inactuate (third-person singular simple present inactuates, present participle inactuating, simple past and past participle inactuated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To put into action; to activate.
    • For the plastick in them is too highly awakened, to inactuate only an aerial body.1662, Joseph Glanvill, Two Choice and Vsefvl Treatises

Forms of inactuate

third-person singular presentinactuates
present participleinactuating
past participleinactuated
pastinactuated

Words formed from inactuate

Questions about inactuate

What does inactuate mean?
Inactuate means to put into action; to activate.
What part of speech is inactuate?
Inactuate is a verb.
What is the past tense of inactuate?
The past tense of inactuate is inactuated.

Words near inactuate in the dictionary

  1. inactivist
  2. inactivists
  3. inactivities
  4. inactivity
  5. inactose
  6. inactuate
  7. inactuated
  8. inactuates
  9. inactuating
  10. inactuation
  11. inadaptabilities

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